Our Team
We are a multi-disciplinary team of students, lawyers, data scientists, and social scientists, including several systems-impacted leaders, that conducts research to measure, study, and raise awareness of the Second Chance Gap.

Colleen Chien
Founder and Director
Colleen V. Chien is a Professor of Law, empirical researcher, and founder and director of the Paper Prisons Initiative. From 2013-2015 she served as White House Senior Advisor on Intellectual Property and Innovation and she currently serves as a part-time Senior Counselor to the Department of Commerce Office of General Counsel.

Navid Shaghaghi
Project Manager
Navid Shaghaghi is a lecturer and researcher in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) of the College of Arts and Sciences, the departments of Computer Science & Engineering (CSEN) and Bioengineering (BIOE) of the School of Engineering, and the department of Information Systems and Analytics (ISA) of the School of Business at Santa Clara University.
Faculty and Community Experts

Hithesh Bathala
Advisor
Hithesh Sekhar is a software development engineer at Amazon, an Information Systems M.S. graduate, and alum of the Paper Prisons team who continues to support the project.

Jessica Jackson
Special Advisor
Jessica Jackson is an American human rights attorney and Chief Advocacy Officer at REFORM Alliance. She is also the co-founder of #cut50, a national bipartisan effort aimed at reducing America's incarceration rate. She served as the youngest mayor of the city of Mill Valley.

Ellen Kreitzberg
Faculty Advisor
Ellen Kreitzerg is a Professor of Law Santa Clara University, and renowned expert on death penalty abolition research and advocacy.

Adam Osmond
Advisor
Adam Osmond, an accountant and data analyst, has spent years collecting and analyzing large public data including criminal data from Connecticut spanning decades. He is passionate about criminal justice reform, as he has witnessed the lasting impact convictions have on the livelihoods of others.

Sam Sinyangwe
Advisor
Samuel Sinyangwe, data scientist, is the founder of Mapping Police Violence and the Police Scorecard, where he uses data to address police violence and mass incarceration.

William Sundstrom
Faculty Advisor
Dr. William Sundstrom is the Stephen and Patricia Schott Professor of Economics at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. His research interests include poverty and inequality, the economic history of labor markets, education and related institutions, and the economics of race and gender.

David Ball
Advisor
David Ball is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law and a leading cirminal justice scholar. He is currently Co-Chair of the Corrections Committe of the ABA's Criminal Jutice Section and has been an actor, filmaker, and Rhodes scholar.

Robert Apel
Advisor
Dr. Robert Apel is a criminologist and Professor at Rutgers University-Newark whose research focuses on the intersection of crime, the justice system, and the labor market.

Jenna Clark
Advisor
Dr. Jenna Clark is a Senior Behavioral Researcher at Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight. She studies how to help people lead happier and healthier lives through behavioral interventions that respect their lived experiences and autonomy.

Jiayu Zhao
Advisor
Jiayu Zhao is a Senior Behavioral Researcher at Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight. Her research interest is to model, explain, and predict decision-making in complex systems and with information feedback delays.

Matthew Stubenberg
Advisor
Matthew Stubenberg is a researcher at Harvard Law School's Access to Justice Lab. He also created the MDExpungement.com website which has generated over 100,000 petitions for expungement.
Law Team

Rachel Nghe
Law Student
Rachel is a third year law student at Santa Clara Law. Prior to law school, she worked at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and at Dropbox as a legal analyst. She has committed her time in school and in her career to DEI and social justice initiatives. She aims to use her legal, technology, and social sector experience to continue to serve minorities and those in need in her community.
Technology Team: Data Science

Varun Gujarathi
Graduate Student: CSEN
Varun is interested in building great tech in general and helping the community with his engineering skills.

Rutuja Pathade
Graduate Student: MIS
Rutuja is interested in contributing to the community with insights that data brings.

Rohit Rathish
Graduate Alumni: CSEN
Rohit is a Computer Science graduate with skills in Data Analytics and Web development.

Shaunak Chaudhary
Graduate Student: CSEN
Shaunak is passionate about applying his technical as well as entrepreneurial skills to develop innovative solutions that can positively impact society.

Shubham Shinde
Graduate Alumni: CSEN
Shubham is passionate about creating cutting-edge AI solutions, he offers a strong technical skill set and a dedicated approach to deliver exceptional results for all projects.
Technology Team: Website and Tools

Ju Young Park
Law Student
Ju Park is a 3rd year Part-Time Law student at Santa Clara University. She is also a UX engineer at Google, focused on front-end development.

Max Calcoen
Highschool Fellow
Max is a high school student who is passionate about how technology can promote social justice. He currently attends Head-Royce School in Oakland as a junior.

Nathan Hoffman
Law Student
Nathan is a part time JD candidate with a background in tech who hopes to some day contribute positively to his community via the intersection of law and tech.

Yabo Du
Engineer
Yabo has more than 10 years of experience working in software development & project management. He is focusing on high performance distribution systems, large-scale data processing and Web3 technologies. Yabo also loves SUP, pickle ball and swimming.

Varun Gujarathi
Graduate Student: CSEN
Varun is interested in building great tech in general and helping the community with his engineering skills.
Past Members

Alyssa Aguilar
Law Student

Amy Allshouse
Law Student

Isabella Ang
Paper Prisons Fellow and Law student

Nancy Attalla
Law Student

Connor Azzarello
Undergraduate Student: CSEN

Bhagyashri Badgujar
M.S. Alumni: IS

Darshan Bhansali
M.S. Alumni: CSEN

Ekam Brar
Law Student

Oswaldo Caballero
Law Alumni

Sonya Chalaka
Advisor

Anthony Chen
Undergraduate Student: CS

Phillip Chin
Undergraduate Student: Political Science and English

Nicholas Antonio Cortes
Summer Law Fellow

Kritin Dhoka
Undergraduate Student: CS

Charles Duggan
Law Student

Eli Edwards
Faculty Advisor

Vidhi Gandhi
M.S. Alumni: IS

Chhavi Garg
Graduate Student: MIS

Alexandra George
Undergraduate Student: Philosophy

Anjali Gupta
Graduate Student: MIS

Evan Hastings
Law Alumni

Soliman Hatef
Law Alumni

Jerry Huang
Graduate Student: CSEN

Monica Jain
M.S. Alumni: IS

Heta Joshi
Undergraduate Student: Mathematics

Hubeyb Kabulantok
Law Student

Jay Kanakiya
Graduate Student: CSEN

Karina Kaypaghian
Undergraduate Student

Arthi Kundadka
Graduate Alumni: CSEN

Ahmanda Lee
Law Student

Justin Li
Undergraduate Student: CS

Siyu Liu
Advisor

Maximilian Lyons
Advisor

Udisha Madnani
Graduate Student: Business Analytics

Chelsie Marie Martinez
Undergraduate Student

Nathaniel Metz
Undergraduate Student: English and History

Celeste Munoz
Undergraduate Student: Political Science and Ethnic Studies

Serena Natt
Law Student

Kiara Navarro
Law Student

Theodore Nguyen
Undergraduate Student: CS

Prajakta Pingale
Graduate Student: IS

Pooja Prashar
M.S. Alumni: IS

Sameeksha Raj
M.S. Alumni: CSEN

Krishan Ranjan
M.S. Alumni: IS

Obie Reynolds
Law Student

Antonio Reza
Advisor

Martin Rios-Cardenas
Undergraduate Student: CS

Laxmi Samala
M.S. Alumni: IS

Sarah-Mae Sanchez
Law Student

Emma Schechter
Undergraduate Student: CS

Srihari Shekhar
Graduate Student: Information Systems

Ekam Singh
Undergraduate Student: CSEN

Apoorva Srinivas
M.S. Alumni: IS

Nivedita Thapa
Graduate Student: MIS

Gwynneth Thomas
Law Student

Samuel Whalen
Summer Law Fellow

Graeme Warren
Advisor

Sharine Xuan
Advisor

Darren C. Yang
Graduate Student: IS